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Posted by BillW50 on November 23, 2006, 10:26 pm
Please log in for more thread options >>> i wonder where can i get any benchmark results for "Intel Mobile
>>> Pentium4-M 2 GHz [400MHz FSB]"
>>> and "Intel® Celeron® M 420 1.6GHz 512MB 60GB [533MHz FSB]" - i
>>> wonder which one is faster? mobile p4 is four? years old, M420 is
>>> relatevily young... so i wonder if mobile p4 is still faster or not?
>>>
>>>
>>> Either of those will be vastly outpaced by an AMD Turion X2, and it
>>> will be cheaper, cooler and have a better battery life (with Cool n'
>>> Quiet enabled). In laptops, AMD still has advantages; I wouldn't
>>> really consider any Intel chips in laptops until they resolve the
>>> heat and power consumption issues (and yes, the latest crop of Intel
>>> chips still run very hot...)
>>> Honu
>>
>> My Gateway MX6124 with an Intel Celeron M 1.5GHZ is the coolest
>> laptop I have ever owned. Well the 2 from the 80's were cooler, but
>> they don't count. And they didn't have fans even. lol
>>
>> --
>> Bill
>
> I was basing my input on the current model I own...HP dv6045nr with
> an AMD Turion64 X2 TL-56. It is much cooler than any other laptop I
> have owned or used, including ones that had the older first gen
> Celerons in them. Heat was a critical issue in determining which
> laptop to
> purchase...and I cannot say that any of the Intel offerings were
> "cool". I also like the fact that the AMD can independently throttle
> each cores frequency and voltage...something that Intel cannot do.
> After researching, it became apparent that in laptops, AMD is still
> the way to go. Even when it has been on several hours, it is barely
> warm to the touch, and the fan hardly ever kicks in. On top of it
> all, after cleaning all the useless crapola that ships on the unit,
> it runs extremely fast. I am currently dual booting with Windows
> Vista Ultimate 64 bit, and it runs even faster, although there are
> still no Vista drivers for the built in video camera and microphones
> mounted in the LCD bezel. All in all, a sweet little lappy. An
> associate bought a much more expensive Intel based HP (dv9000
> series), and his machine is much slower than mine, even after house
> cleaning and optimization. His battery life is also a lot shorter.
> Makes me appreciate mine even more.
> Honu
That is what I am talking about. You can only hear the fan if it is dead
quiet. The laptop doesn't get warm except in one small spot right by the
CPU and that is all. My all early Celeron's really got warm. Not burning
warm, but very warm. And this laptop is on 24/7. It will get warm if I
close the lid (and left running), so I guess the little bit of heat
escapes through the keyboard.
I never owned an AMD laptop, but I had 4 AMD desktops. And every single
one of them had lots of problems with some software. Just today I
installed a task scheduler on 1 of the AMDs and it loads the preferences
and closes and then loads preferences, etc. So the Windows opening and
closing sounds cycles endlessly. Tried safe mode and the same thing. I
have dualboot on this same desktop and the other partition works fine,
thank goodness!
You can keep your AMDs! Nothing but trouble for me. I guess there is
nothing wrong with AMDs directly, just the chipsets that come with them.
:(
You know when you get burned 4 times in a row, it is time to call it
quits! If it also happened with Intel, I would be using a Mac right now.
;)
--
Bill
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